A Charlottesville man who was facing deportation to Russia will get a second chance to have his case heard before the Board of Immigration Appeals.

One stamp of approval on the I-130 form would mean that the Bureau of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would recognize the marriage between Gennady and Melinda Denisenko. Instead of getting a work permit, the 57-year-old Gennady was taken away to be deported back to his native Russia.

Peter Loach grew up in the Charlottesville area, and in his younger days there weren’t many Hispanics around. He left the area, and was gone for some 20 years. He spent Much of that time in Latin America. When he returned to his hometown, Loach noticed a difference.

It sounded like approaching thunder.
But in the desert between the Mexican cities of Sasabe and Nogales, Central Virginia residents Jeff Winder and Sue Frankel-Streit knew it couldn’t be a storm. They soon realized it was people — the sounds of migrants risking their lives to reach the U.S. border.

Federal agents busted businesses because of ID stealing.